Folding bed.



Patented June 4, l90 l.

H. MGDONNELL.

F 0 L D l N G B E D (Application filed May 10, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNTTnn STATES HUGH MODONN ELL,

PATENT OFFIC OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 675,520, dated June 4, 1901.

Serial No. 16,160. (No model.)

To [LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH MODONNELL, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Beds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in folding beds, the object being to simplify and perfect the construction of furniture of this character; and it consists in numerous novel and effective features for the quicker handling and more compact and convenient folding of the parts, together with numerous details and peculiarities in the construction and combination and arrangement, substantially as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating myinvention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved folding bed shown in its unfolded position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same in the folded position. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail view. Fig. 4: is an edge view of the bed-frame and shows the locking devices for holding the parts in the folded or unfolded positions. Fig. 5 is a detailed View of the projection on one of the posts and the lug or hook on said projection.

Like numerals of reference denote like parts in all the different figures of the drawings.

8 and 4 denote the posts of the bedstead, and 1 the bed-frame, made of angle-iron in rectangular form and carrying the spring-bed The head-posts are connected by means of a horizontally-extensible and compressibleleverage mechanism or lazy-ton gs 5, and there is also a similar lazy-tongs 5 between the footposts, said lazy-tongs devices in each instance being connected to stationary upper collars 6 on the posts and to movable lower collars 7, that slide on the posts, and thus permit the adjustment of the lovers in opening and closing.

One longitudinal edge of bed-frame 1the right-hand edge, for instance-4s supported on hooks S on the posts 3 3 when it is in its horizontal position. The head and foot ends 11 of the frame 1 are provided with horizontal slots 9, running from a point near one end of part 11 for about two-thirds of the way,

say, to the other end, the end thereof nearest the end of part 11 being enlarged at 10 to receive the projection 12 on post 4. When the post i is vertical in position, the projection 12 fully occupies the widest portion 10 of the slot, and a lug 13, integral with projection 12 and situated on the inside of frame 1, keeps the post at in position, there being also a latch 14, which at this time bears against the projection 12 (see Fig. 4c) and assists in holding the post 4 in place.

The purpose of the projection 12 and slot 9 Will be apparent from my description of the manner of folding the bed. The folded position is indicated in Fig. 2. In transferring the parts from the position shown in Fig. 1 to that which they occupy in Fig. 2 the righthand edge of the bed-frame as it appears in Fig. 1 will be lifted away from the hooks 8 and the posts 3 moved toward the posts 4, the lazy-tongs 5 being both collapsed during this movement. When the posts 3 and 4 have thus been brought close to each other, they will be turned from a position at right angles to bed 1 into a position parallel with and close to the head and foot pieces l1,which will shift the projection 12 around in the enlarged end 10 of the slot, and since when so turned the thinnest section of said projection 12 will come into line with and be adapted to enter slot 9 the folded posts may now be moved endwise until placed in the position shown in Fig. 2, where they are close against the full length of end pieces 11, being of substantially the same length as said pieces, and in the movement into this position the projection 12 Will slide along in the slot 9 until the end thereof is reached, the slot serving as a guide. The latch 15 may now be employed to engage projection 12 and hold the posts or legs in their present position. It will be manifest that by reversing the abovedescribed operation the bed may be restored, when desired, to the unfolded position, in which it is ready for use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a folding bed, the combination with the bed-frame having horizontally-slotted end pieces, of the posts, connections between them, and means consisting of lugs engaging the slotsfor connecting the posts to the end pieces so that they may be folded alongside of said end pieces.

2. In a folding bed, the combination with the bed-frame having longitudinally-slotted ends, of the posts, connections between those I at each end consisting of lazy-tong levers,

posts together and the foot-posts, together with latches for holding the posts in their unfolded or folded positions, substantially as set forth.

4. In a folding bed, the combination with the bed-frame having slotted end pieces, of

the posts having means thereon for engaging the slots in said end pieces, and connections between the posts at each end consisting of lazy-tong levers.

Signed at New York city this 8th day of May, 1900.

HUGH MCDONNELL.

Witnesses:

FRED E. TASKER, J. S. OADEL. 

